Tag: Redistricting

Virginia Lawmakers Vote To Approve Redistricting Effort

Source: PAUL J. RICHARDS / Getty On Friday, Virginia lawmakers approved a redistricting plan that could net Democrats four seats in the House.  According to the Washington Post, the proposed constitutional amendment would temporarily shift control of the state’s maps from an independent, bipartisan committee to the Grand Assembly until 2030. Virginia Democrats said the […]

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Virginia Democrats Pass Major Amendment Amid GOP Gerrymandering Wars

“Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car.… My 6-month-old can’t even breathe. This was flipped over,” Shawn told Fox9, referring to his child’s car seat. “My car filled with tear gas, I’m trying to pull my kids from the car.” As bystanders rushed the children […]

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Federal Judge Allows California To Use New Congressional Map

Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The modern GOP really believes that it should be allowed to do whatever it wants while everyone else plays by the rules. So it should come as no surprise that, after convincing several Republican state legislatures to engage in rare, mid-decade redistricting efforts, the Trump administration sued California for engaging […]

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Announces Special Session For Redistricting

Source: Joe Raedle / Getty The nationwide redistricting continues into the new year, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for a special session focused on redistricting.  According to AP News, Republicans already control 20 of Florida’s 28 districts, so it’s unclear how many seats they intend to gain with a new map. While the legislative […]

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Trump Says Quiet Part Out Loud About Wanting to Win Midterm Elections

Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be on the verge of panic. Anxious about midterms, the White House has spent months trying to influence red states to gerrymander their congressional lines to turn more seats in Congress. So far, that pressure campaign has had mixed results. The MAGA leader then went on to suggest that Republicans are […]

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Trump Gives Away His Entire Game on Midterm Elections

Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be on the verge of panic. Anxious about midterms, the White House has spent months trying to influence red states to gerrymander their congressional lines to turn more seats in Congress. So far, that pressure campaign has had mixed results. The MAGA leader then went on to suggest that Republicans are […]

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Indiana Republicans Overwhelmingly Reject Trump’s Redistricting Effort

Source: Jeremy Poland / Getty For the last six months, we’ve seen several Republican state legislatures implement rare, mid-decade redistricting efforts at the behest of President Donald Trump. While the GOP has largely been grossly submissive to Trump, a group of Republican state senators in Indiana displayed a surprising amount of backbone on Thursday after […]

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Indiana Republican Deletes Post Exposing Extreme Trump Threat

Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]

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Indiana Republican Deletes Post Exposing Trump Gerrymandering Threat

Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]

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How Trump’s Redistricting Pressure Campaign in Indiana Backfired

“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]

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How Trump’s Redistricting Plan in Indiana Blew Up in His Face

“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want […]

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Trump Melts Down Over Key Gerrymandering Scheme Ahead of Vote

Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year.  In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]

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Trump Lashes Out at GOP Senator Who Blocked Gerrymandering Scheme

Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year.  In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]

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Indiana Statehouse Rocked by Protests as Republicans Try to Rig Maps

Protesters packed the Indiana Statehouse Monday to fight against Republican plans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give their party an extra advantage and eliminate the state’s two Democratic congressional seats. President Trump has pushed for the redistricting, which passed Indiana’s House of Representatives last week. Republicans in the state Senate have warned that […]

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Indiana Redistricting Effort Faces Potential Resistance In State Senate

Source: SOPA Images / Getty The nationwide redistricting gained another entrant on Friday, when the Indiana state House passed a new congressional map.  Despite Indiana’s state legislature having a Republican supermajority, it’s not a forgone conclusion that the map will pass, as the state Senate has shown significant resistance against the redistricting effort. The state […]

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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map In Midterms 

Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In news that can be filed under “disappointing, but not surprising,” the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling allowing Texas to use its recently redistricted map in the 2026 midterms.  According to CBS News, the ruling came after a panel of federal judges struck down the map last month. In […]

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Indiana House Republicans Pass Map Wiping Out All Democratic Seats

“I just think being off for 50 days, there was no continuity. Nobody was here. There was nobody like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great. Keep it up,’” the lawmaker continued. “Everyone being back in their district, there was a loneliness. A lot of members may have felt like we’re on our own.” Johnson shocked the halls […]

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Petition Rejecting Missouri’s Redistricting Effort To Be Submitted Next Week

Source: Michael Thomas / Getty Missouri is one of several states that engaged in a mid-decade redistricting effort at the behest of President Donald Trump. While the state legislature approved a new map that would give the GOP another House seat in Missouri, a referendum campaign has gained enough signatures to potentially take the map […]

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Indiana House Convenes For Redistricting Push

Source: Pgiam / Getty Despite Indiana’s redistricting efforts continually stalling out, the state House will convene on Monday to vote on redrawing the state’s congressional maps.  According to AP, the measure should have no problem passing in the House, but it’s a different story when it comes to the state Senate. Republicans control both Indiana’s […]

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Trump’s Use of Slur Costs Him Ally in Red State Redistricting Scheme

Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ’s evidence on Epstein. This included the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 prison death, as well as “search warrant execution photos,” “street surveillance video,” and […]

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Trump’s Insult to Tim Walz Costs Him Key Ally in Redistricting Scheme

Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ’s evidence on Epstein. This included the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 prison death, as well as “search warrant execution photos,” “street surveillance video,” and […]

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MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy

Four years later, in a racial gerrymandering case from Alabama, Allen v. Milligan (formerly Merrill v. Milligan), Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh worked together to invite the Voting Rights Act case they really wanted. Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals to order an Alabama map that created two Black opportunity districts, while patiently teeing up the challenge they […]

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MAGA Is Livid Ted Cruz Accidentally Helped Block Texas Redistricting

Prosecutors argued that Weinstein, who in recent years went by the alias Mike Konig to hide his criminal history, milked roughly $35 million from dozens of investors who believed they were putting their money into Covid-19 masks, baby formula, and first aid kits for Ukraine, according to the indictment. It was a crime that Weinstein […]

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Red State GOP Gives Trump the Middle Finger on Gerrymandering

“People are wise to your hoax, and ABC is, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I’ll tell you something, I’ll tell you something, I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who […]

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Judge Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Texas Gerrymandering Scheme

A federal appeals court panel affirmed the dismissal Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for using the term “the Big Lie,” calling the president’s claims “unpersuasive” and “meritless.” “Trump has not adequately alleged the falsity of CNN’s statements. Therefore, he has failed to state a defamation claim,” wrote Eleventh Circuit […]

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Trump Suffers Major Setback in Texas Gerrymandering Scheme

A federal appeals court panel affirmed the dismissal Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for using the term “the Big Lie,” calling the president’s claims “unpersuasive” and “meritless.” “Trump has not adequately alleged the falsity of CNN’s statements. Therefore, he has failed to state a defamation claim,” wrote Eleventh Circuit […]

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Republican Lawmaker Becomes Victim of Swatting After Trump Attack

His remarks had been hurtful, she said. “However, I have something in my heart that I think is incredibly important for our country, and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics. And this has been going on for years.… The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me […]

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Republican Lawmaker Becomes Swatting Target Hours After Trump Attack

His remarks had been hurtful, she said. “However, I have something in my heart that I think is incredibly important for our country, and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics. And this has been going on for years.… The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me […]

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Trump Melts Down Over Failed Redistricting Effort in Indiana

Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding. Reporter: Was it your brain? Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. pic.twitter.com/uMhkBu0RUU — Acyn (@Acyn) November 15, 2025 For what it’s worth, an MRI is a fairly involved process that involves removing clothing, donning earplugs, […]

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Yet Another Red State Kills Trump’s Redistricting Dreams

The signees make a point to note that Israel’s genocide has been largely bankrolled by the U.S. government and the American taxpayer, stating that “the United States provided an estimated $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel, and during that same period, the White House authorized or notified over $30,000,000,000 in additional new arms sales agreements […]

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DOJ Sues To Block New California Voting Map In Redistricting Fight

Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a new front in an escalating assault on democratic norms, filing a high-stakes lawsuit to block California’s newly approved congressional district map.  According to the complaint filed in federal court on Thursday, the Justice Department is challenging the voter-approved Proposition 50, a constitutional […]

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